Quick Launch
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:49 pm
In my quest to be eternally lazy, i discovered that the mere effort needed to double click the macroquest shortcut and the everquest shortcut was just too much... so i created a batch file that runs them both with just one double click... ill prolly figgure out how to do it in one click soon 
anyways if your interested, here's how i did it.
1.) to make it easier, just make a new folder somewhere, like in your MQ2 folder or wherever you prefer. I called mine EQEnhanced but you can do whatever.
2.) to this folder, add two shortcuts, one of EverQuest and one of Macroquest. Title them whatever you want, it really doesn't matter. I called them 1 and 2 for ease, but again, it doesn't matter.
3.) create a .txt file, just right click in the folder and go to New and then to Text Document. Then type the following code in the file:
::Note:: change the C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk to your directory and shortcut location that you put the EQ and MQ2 shortcuts in, just keep the .lnk part at the end of the file, thats the file extension for a shortcut, and if your line has a space in it you have to put the C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk in Quotes.
4.) Choose Save As.. under the File menu. Change the Save as Type option to All Files, then you can change the File Name field to whatever you prefer, but you MUST end it with .bat and not .txt (Ex. EQEnhanced.bat). Save the file
5.) Right click the newly created batch (.bat) file and choose Send To and then Desktop (create shortcut. You can change the shortcut settings to whatever you want.
Congrats! your done! just double click the shortcut whenever you want to play EQ, and it doesnt matter if you have MacroQuest running from a previous session, it'll still work fine.
anyways if your interested, here's how i did it.1.) to make it easier, just make a new folder somewhere, like in your MQ2 folder or wherever you prefer. I called mine EQEnhanced but you can do whatever.
2.) to this folder, add two shortcuts, one of EverQuest and one of Macroquest. Title them whatever you want, it really doesn't matter. I called them 1 and 2 for ease, but again, it doesn't matter.
3.) create a .txt file, just right click in the folder and go to New and then to Text Document. Then type the following code in the file:
Code: Select all
@echo off
Start C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\1.lnk
Start C:\MQ2\EQEnhanced\2.lnk
4.) Choose Save As.. under the File menu. Change the Save as Type option to All Files, then you can change the File Name field to whatever you prefer, but you MUST end it with .bat and not .txt (Ex. EQEnhanced.bat). Save the file
5.) Right click the newly created batch (.bat) file and choose Send To and then Desktop (create shortcut. You can change the shortcut settings to whatever you want.
Congrats! your done! just double click the shortcut whenever you want to play EQ, and it doesnt matter if you have MacroQuest running from a previous session, it'll still work fine.
